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Telegram's official APIs are great, but both come with strings attached: the Bot API needs a bot that channel owners must add, and the MTProto client API wants your phone number and an app registration. If all you need is the public message history of public channels, there is a third door with no s
Kage can package entire websites into single files
I’ve been building web scrapers for years. BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Playwright — I thought I’d seen it all. But last month I hit a wall so stubborn that I almost gave up on the entire project. Here’s the story of how traditional scraping failed me, and why I now treat AI as a legitimate tool in my d
I built a small web scraping framework in Rust, mostly with an AI doing the typing. It's called ferrous — a Colly-style collector: register CSS selector callbacks, queue URLs, write JSONL. About 700 lines. The pitch I kept hearing, and half-believed, was that Rust and LLMs are a good match now: the
I've been building web scrapers for years. BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium — I've used them all. But last month I hit a wall. A client needed me to extract product data from a site that changed its HTML structure every few days. One week the price was in a , the next it was inside a with a random ID
